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the soil, and increases rapidly. I find it does better if divided every 

 second or third year. Several small clumps planted in well enriched 

 soil around a stout stake or post four or five feet high makes a 

 beautiful sight late in summer. The stems can be tied around the 

 post so as to entirely conceal it, and the flowers extending above the 

 top of the post, droop in every direction like a fountain of gold. 



Anemone Japonica, ''Queen Charlotte." This beautiful plant is 

 one of the last to bloom in the garden. It commences to flower early 

 in September and continues to put forth its large semi-double white 

 flowers tinged with pink until cut down by hard frost, and it takes 

 quite a hard frost to knock it out. 



The twelve plants named, cover the season from April to Novem- 

 ber, inclusive. Three are low growing, six of medium height, and 

 three tall. Two of them are white and the others embrace shades 

 of red, yellow, pink and blue. Seven of them are good for cutting. 

 None are so rare as to entail much expense or trouble in procuring 

 them — and all are perfectly hardy, 



I am well aware that I have not mentioned many beautiful herba- 

 ceous plants that are equally as fine as those I have named, and some 

 of my professional friends may think I have much to learn in regard 

 to pere'hnials, but I venture to assert that any amateur who starts 

 his garden with the plants I have named will, if he has any love for 

 flowers, be so well pleased that he will quickly wish to double or 

 treble his list. 



CULTURE OF CALCEOLARIA HYBRIDA. 



By WM KLEINHEINRY. Gardener to P. A. B. Widener, Ogontz, Pa. 



There are two distinct classes of Calceolarias — those known as 

 shrubby are used m some parts of Europe for planting out in sum- 

 mer time, and there are the herbaceous or hybrida varieties. It 

 is of the latter class, which is the better for pot culture, that I will 

 talk to you about this evening. 



They are grown from seed, and the best time to sow the seed is 

 in the months of July and August. The seed should be sown in 

 pans or small boxes in a mixture of even parts of well decomposed 

 sod, leaf mould or peat in which some sand has been mixed. Care 

 should be taken to choose a shady situation for the seed pans and 

 as cool and airy as possible. After the plants are well up, they 



